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The prosecutor told Queens Criminal Court that the alleged relationship began last year after he pursued the girl, who originally just wanted to be friends with him.

He is alleged to have begun texting her last August before inviting her to his apartment when his wife and 11-month-old daughter were out.

Reilly, who faces statutory rape charges, is said to have given the girl a code-name to use so that her parents would not discover the affair, while he used another code for her so his wife Annemarie would remain in the dark.

Off easy: Intermediate School 237 in Flushing, New York,where Daniel Reilly was a sixth-grade English teacher. He received only 4 months in jail for crimes that can carry 7 years

The prosecutor said: 'The defendant planned on keeping the affair secret', according to a report in the New York Daily News.

It said the relationship was only discovered when the victim's sister discovered texts from Reilly on her sister's cellphone.

She told her parents, who alerted IS237, where the girl is no longer a student, and they hauled him out of class while they rang police.

The $61,000-a-year teacher, who served as a sergeant in the Marines between 1996-2000, is said to have no history of disciplinary problems since he began working as a teacher in 2007.